Bethel College (KS)

Tod Bean transferred to Bethel from Snow College in Ephraim, Utah, for his junior and senior years, 1991-92. In his career at Bethel, Bean recorded 98 solo tackles, 89 assisted tackles, nine tackles for a loss and 23 quarterback sacks. He was Team Defensive MVP his senior year while earning 1st Team KCAC, 1st Team District 10 and 1st Team NAIA All-America honors for his play on the defensive side of the ball. Bean owns the record for most sacks in a game with five against McPherson College in his senior season.

Bean graduated from Bethel in 1994 with a B.S. in health, physical education and recreation and later earned an M.Ed. in sports administration from Wichita State University. 

He says that Bethel influenced many aspects of his life, and not only football, in which he played under the coaching of Kent Rogers. Bethel taught him "to exceed my own expectations academically, which created opportunity in various ways. I met a lot of fantastic people whom I still consider friends and most importantly was introduced to my wife [Jennifer Bean, Bethel Class of 1995] with whom I have raised a wonderful family."